• Do something every day that will take you one step closer to your goals.

• Results are everything, your ability to get results will determine how much you are paid in life.

• After the first few years of your career your education counts for very little, what matters are the results you can bring to that company.

• Most information has a half life of about 2 years. This means that what you need to know now will be obsolete in 2 years, so you need to continually learn new things just to keep up with others.

• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

• Persistence is your measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Every time you persist you become stronger, you believe in yourself more, you develop greater self discipline and greater self confidence.

• In order to enjoy life you have to find something that you enjoy doing, not just doing what someone else does or what someone else tells you to do. Everyone must live a life that is individually unique to them in order for them to be truly happy.

• In the information age knowledge is the raw material of production and value.

• It used to be the case in society that the difference was between those who have more and have less. Now the difference is between those who know more and those who know less.

• Your most valuable asset is your earning ability, your ability to earn money from what you know and the skills you have.

• Rich people became rich by developing their earning ability.

• Learn how to learn faster and easier.

• Left brain people like to see things in a step by step manner, right brain people like to see the whole picture first before they learn something. If you learn things in a style different to how you learn it will be much harder to understand.

• Negative emotions can inhibit your ability to learn, they shut down the brain. This is why you can suddenly realise you have been staring at a page not doing anything if you are worried about something.

• Most of your learning has been informal, you have learnt it yourself through exploration. Involves trial and error, practicing, having fun, asking questions, free of stress.

• If you can see the point or purpose of what you are learning you will learn better.

• Learning how to learn is something that will benefit you throughout your entire life. The more you learn the more you earn.

• Most people learn best by seeing it, hearing it and doing it.

• Keep yourself interested in what you learn by asking questions beforehand and then answering them as you learn. How can I use this information? What is the writer trying to say? Is this information true? Can I relate this information to anything I already know?

• You can increase your understanding of something by explaining what you have learnt to someone else.

• You need to explore a subject to really learn it rather than just looking at it. 1 - Put in your own words, you learn best with your own words rather than someone else’s. 2- Learn with others by discussing it with them. 3 - List out the important points in order of importance. 4 - Explore the subject in a physical way, such as acting it out or writing notes on paper cards. 5 - Decide how the subject fits into what you already know, this way you build upon existing knowledge and will understand it better. 6 - Write a song or jingle.

• You remember 90% of what you see, hear, say and do, but only 20% of what you read.

• Likelihood of remembering something increases 400% if you look at it the next day, next week and next month.